09 August 2011

Windows Phone 7 Users in #China Report Marketplace Blocked by Great Firewall

Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphone users in China are reporting en masse thatMicrosoft's app store, the Marketplace, is blocked or inaccessible in the country – making it impossible to download or update apps.

The issue – which sees all attempted downloads fail with a connection error message – has been ongoing since the start of the weekend. WP7 users in China report that they can download apps within China only if they switch on a VPN, as many of them already do in order to access Twitter, which has been fully blocked in China since June 2nd, 2009.

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